In 2023 we secured support through the Mayor of London’s Propel programme to extend support to many groups of under-served young Londoners. We also worked with business partners and key funders to extend our mentorship offer to young people throughout the UK.
We unlock more programme slots, as we unlock funding.
We offer core programmes for care-experienced young people throughout the United Kingdom as well as customised programmes with community, local authority and business partners.
We encourage applications from young people who are facing challenging circumstances, including care-experienced young people, young people with mental health challenges, young people from minority groups and communities, and young people facing significant life transitions.
To find out if we have a programme available for you, click the learn more button below.
SAYes Mentoring encourages applications from volunteers (aged 26+) anywhere in the world with a variety of lived experiences.
We unlock more programme slots through our global community of donors and business partnerships.
We offer world-class mentorship training, connecting independent volunteers and business teams across a range of mentorship programmes in SA and the UK.
All mentors are provided with professional and personal support throughout their 9-month mentorships.
We encourage applications from volunteers who are independent, knowledgeable and experienced, with great networks, a secure relationship style, and a passion for the next generation.
SAYes works with over 100 youth referral partners across London as part of the Mayor of London’s New Deal for Young People (Propel funding). This means we can currently support disadvantaged young Londoners at no cost to our partners.
Through our core programme funding, SAYes also partners with organisations supporting care-experienced young people throughout the UK up to age 32. We also work with local authority and government agencies, non-profit and voluntary organisations, schools, universities and colleges in various collaborative arrangements. To refer a young person or to learn more about partnering with us:
Participation and Mentoring Project Officer, Lewisham Children and Young People.
Since our pilot, our UK programme manager and youth engagement team have engaged with over 100 potential referring partners in London and the UK, presenting the SAYes Mentoring model to organisations working with young people who could benefit from mentoring.
Ambassador Chelsea and UK Programmes’ Manager Fiona presented the SAYes Mentoring model to the Young Mayor and Young Advisors at The Civic Suite, Catford.
SAYes is committed to bringing the best social change experience to business teams across the globe, and to helping corporate partners improve the impact of their social change investments, tractably, sustainably and at scale. Our Partner Programmes connect your business teams with young people through mentorship, and are built to deliver the skills, values and vision of purpose leadership, while also achieving powerful employee engagement with social and community impact benefits.
SAYes is committed to bringing the best mentorship support to under-served populations across the globe, and to helping our youth partners improve the impact of their services and support.
We are especially concerned to partner with organisations seeking to incorporate formal mentoring into their existing services and support, and committed to inclusive and evidence-based programming.
Through our core programme funding, we support care-experienced young people throughout the UK and SA. We also work with local authority and government agencies, non-profit and voluntary organisations, schools, universities and colleges to provide customised programmes.
SAYes offers a model of mentoring and transition planning known to improve the quality and consistency of relational support, and therefore the motivational context through which various change interventions are introduced and supported. We have applied this model in building organisational mentorships across various sectors.
Clients have engaged SAYes to enhance mentorship skills, knowledge and values within leadership and management teams, to produce structured mentorship offers relevant to their current and aspirational context, to support selected cohorts of mentor-mentee matches, to craft their identity and programmatic offering in the grassroots organisational mentorship space.
